Tramping, Tales, Training and Travails
At the end of a Storyline module I'm making, I wanted to create an easily printable page that contained all the freetext field entries the learner had made during the course. I tried doing the basic old 'window.print()' - but since Storyline on desktop runs through flash, the print function was being a bit weird.... Continue Reading →
Getting the learner name from the LMS is a nice wee trick to personalise a course (used sparingly!) Using whatever API (in this instance I was using Pipwerks SCORM 1.2 demo shell), var learnerName = get('cmi.core.student_name'); The SCORM standard stores the name as LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial, so the name comes out as 'Blair, Lawrence' for... Continue Reading →
Paranoid the reason nothing is coming out is that nothing is coming in? This is a nice and easy alert option to print out your XML doc as an alert, so you know the data's there. If nothing's working - it's some other reason! $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "courses.xml", dataType: "xml", success: function (data) {... Continue Reading →
This uses the telize site to get a geolocation of an IP address. It's not 100% accurate but fine for country-level location, which is all I wanted. <script type="application/javascript"> function getgeoip(json){ //document.write("Geolocation information for IP address : ", json.ip); //document.write("Country : ", json.country); //document.write("Latitude : ", json.latitude); //document.write("Longitude : ", json.longitude); //document.write("Country: " + json.country);... Continue Reading →
Run this as a 'run JavaScript' in Storyline and you're done-burgers. Storyline 360 (20.03.2018) function findLMSAPI(win) { if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win; else if (win.parent == win) return null; else return findLMSAPI(win.parent); } var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this); //set score; the first number is the score lmsAPI.SetScore(100, 100, 0); //set status; possible values: "completed","incomplete", "failed", "passed" lmsAPI.SetReachedEnd();... Continue Reading →
Great for CP simulations. As easy as below (run from the js-opened child window/simulation) window.opener.focus(); window.close();
A neat wee time saving way to write an if () {} else {} statement in flash or javascript: var a = true; var b = false; var c; if(a==b?c = true: c = false); trace(c); The statements between the ? and the : are if the if evaluated to true, and after the :... Continue Reading →
To communicate between JavaScript and Actionscript it isn't so hard. FLASH: import flash.external.ExternalInterface; ExternalInterface.addCallback("sendTextToFlash", getTextFromJavaScript); function getTextFromJavaScript(str):void { trace(str); } JAVASCRIPT: var currentPage="Home"; function setCurrentPage(newPage) { currentPage = newPage; SendDataToFlashMovie(newPage); } So then on the page, this code is run when an item is clicked (javascript function sending to flash) <a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="setCurrentPage('Home')">Home</a> This javascript... Continue Reading →
In this instance, I had a parent window which launched a bunch of child windows. These child windows needed to run a function on the parent window when a particular function was called. Since the event dispatcher isn't widely working with IE just yet it seems, that wasn't a real option, so I went oldschool... Continue Reading →
This will create a text file 'text.txt' in the folder where test.hta is residing. Could use to create xml and config files with javascript for courses to manipulate later. <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> function WriteToFile() { try { var fso, s; fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); /* s = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\\test.txt" , 8, 1, -2); */ s... Continue Reading →
I've been building an app where the size of the flash area is going to change beyond the bounds of the browser window at certain points - but I do not want to use flash scrollbars, as you're already in a browser and as a user I much prefer the browsers scrollbar over dinky wee... Continue Reading →
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